Our Research
WRC has many core areas of research and applied research activities, which are supported by academics and researchers from within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Our activities cover virtually everything to do with water and the technology we develop is also successfully applied to non-water related areas. Some of the key areas are:
The UNSW Odour Laboratory is a research group within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales. The laboratory is a leading edge facility that specialises in interdisciplinary research and training for the assessment and management of odour and gaseous emissions... Visit UNSW Odour Lab website
Detailed consideration of biogeochemical processes operating in natural and engineered systems with a view to both improving our understanding of nature and developing improved remediation strategies... Visit UNSW Biogem website
The Water Research Laboratory has several decades of experience in the research, investigation and application of fundamental and applied civil engineering hydraulics... Find out more at WRL website
The Water Research Laboratory has a highly regarded international reputation in coastal and ocean engineering... Find out more at WRL website
Environmental engineering combines the resources of groups within WRL to provide an integrated assessment of environmental impacts. .. Find out more at WRL website
The Water Research Laboratory has a team of hydrogeologists and environmental engineers who are highly regarded for groundwater problem solving... Find out more at WRL website
Hydroclimatology is the study of the processes and mechanisms that link the movement of water between the Earth’s surface and atmosphere, emphasizing how the climate system causes temporal and spatial variations in the hydrological cycle... Visit UNSW Hydroclimatology website
WRL have specialist expertise to provide solutions for critical water resource issues including the hydrology and quality of runoff in urban catchments, water budgeting, reservoir operations, environmental flows and the sedimentation, geomorphology, and flooding of rivers... Find out more at WRL website
Environmental projects need to estimate and account for risk. Such analysis considers the risks associated with such activities as the storage of water in reservoirs, drinking water production, distribution pipe biofilms and recreation in natural bathing waters... Find out more
Researchers in the Sustainability Assessment Program apply their expertise in quantitative environmental and sustainability assessment to support decision making for sustainable development... Find out more
Water and wastewater treatment is a broad research area that incorporates the study of physical, chemical and biological processes used to remove and/or transform dissolved... Find out more
The Urban Water group is a new growing group within Water Research Centre, under the leadership of Ana Deletic, who is renowned for her research in stormwater, particularly about management of urban runoff quantity, quality and treatment... Find out more
WRC researchers and students, led by Prof Richard Stuetz at UNSW, are research partners of ARC Training Centre for Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource. The Centre aims to transform Australia’s biosolids resources to deliver world-class and innovative technological solutions and knowledge, to train the next generation of biosolids practitioners in cutting-edge, transformational approaches, and to guide best practice in the biosolids sector. More information visit: https://www.transformingbiosolids.org.au/about/.. Find out more
The Data Analytics for Resources & Environments (DARE) Centre is an Industrial Transformation Training Centre led by the University of Sydney in partnership with the Universtiy of NSW and University of Western Australia
DARE is working with PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers and industry and government partners interested in developing new data science models to drive better decision making in the management of Australia’s natural resource
The internationally recognised Scientists team includes Lucy Marshall (WRC, Director), Fiona Johnson (WRC Deputy Director)
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